This should be in the "Books that influenced me.." thread. Gerald Durrell, the Pommie animal collector, filmaker, zookeeper, etc wrote a wonderful series of books. Some of his yarns may sound far fetched, but having known some of the NZ scientists, and places he wrote about, I believe them all - he had them sussed to a T.

In "My Family and Other Animals" (or one of the others about his childhood in Corfu", he wrote about going nightfishing with a local fisherman. The technique used for catching cuttlefish (a relative of the squid) was...

1. Catch a female in an "intersting condition"
2. Tie her to a string, and go looking for males - when found..
3. Drop her over the side. Then...
4. Pull 'em both up, locked in a tight embrace, then..
5. Drop the lass ove the side again ..... ;)

From memory, they caught 6-7 males.

Cheers - Sam